Anvil.



A. G. HARRINGTON.

ANVIL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 8, 1914.

Patented Jan. 12, 1915.

amumdoac H. C. HHBBl/V TO N ARTHUR C. HARRINGTON, OF MONON, INDIANA.

ANVIL.

Original application filed March 14. 1914, Serial No. 824,738.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1914. Serial No. 837,257.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ARTHUR C. HARRING- TON, a citizen of the United States residing at Monon, in the county of lVhite and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Anvils, being a division of my copending application, Serial No. 824,738, filed March 14, 1914, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in anvils, and the object of the invention is to provide a device of this general character having novel and improved means whereby the same may be employed with convenience and facility for the purposes of cutting material and is especially adapted for use in connection with horseshoes for the purpose of cutting kerfs in the heel extremities thereof.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved anvil, whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device is rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the appended claims. In order that my invention may be the bet ter understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of an anvil constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is an'enlarged fragmentary view in perspective of the Working extremity of the anvil, w th a horseshoe shown applied thereto in position to be cut; Fig. 3 is an elevational view of the upper or working extremity of the anvil as herein embodied; Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 44i of Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a view in perspective of a horseshoe showing the slits in the heel extremities thereof as produced in connection with my improved anvil.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, 2 denotes the anvil which may be of any ordinary or preferred configuration but herein disclosed as an elongated vertlcally disposed body having formed in its top and forward faces the recess or cav1ty 3 into which is adapted to be projected a heel end of a horseshoe A when the same is tobe split, as indicated at B, for the insertion of a calk or plug, as has been particularly set forth in my co-pending application, Serial No. 824,738, and of which my present invention is a division. The base of the recess or cavity is provided with a longitudinally disposed dove-tail groove 4: into which is adapted to be removably inserted the cutting 1 member or knife 5 preferably in the form of an inverted V in cross section and of a predetermined length. In order to limit the insertion of the heel end of the shoe within the recess 3 so that the cut or slit will be uniform in all instances, I provide the top face of the anvil 2 with the groove 6 in communication with the recess or pocket 3, and in such groove 6 is positioned an end portion of a spring member 7, such member being anchored to the anvil in any desired manner, as indicated at 8. The inner or forward extremity of such spring member 7 is flexed downwardly to afford a stop 9, as is particularly shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and with which the heel end or extremity of the shoe A is adapted to contact. After the heel end or extremity of the shoe has been properly heated, it is positioned within the recess or cavity 3 with its free extremity abutting the stop 9 and resting upon the cutting edge of the member or knife 5. Such end is then struck either by a power hammer or a manually operated hammer until the member or knife 5 has properly penetrated the heel end or extremity whereby the kerf B is produced in order to receive therein the usual calk or plug in order that the same may be properly welded to the shoe.

In order that a heel end or extremity may be properly positioned within the recess or cavity 3 and upon the knife 5, I produce in the forward face of the anvil 2 below such recess or cavity 3 the elongated vertically disposed recess or cavity 10 adapted to receive the opposite heel end or extremity of the shoe. I also find it of advantage in practice to have the cutting member or knife 5 of such a height as to terminate slightly below the top face of the anvil 2.

From the foregoing description, it is thought to be obvious that an anvil constructed in accordance with my invention is of an extremely simple and comparatively 11a uNrrEr) STATES PATENT onrron.

inexpensive nature and is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled and by reason of the effectiveness with which it performs its functions, and it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change and modification without material departure from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out my invention in practice.

I claim:

1. A device of the character described comprising an anvil having a recess in its top face, a cutting member positioned within said recess, and a stop member carried by the anvil projecting within the recess in thetop face thereof.

2. A device of the character described comprising an anvil having a recess in it top face, a cutting member positioned Copies of thlspatent may be obtained for flye cents each, by addressing the Washington, I). 0."

Within said recess, and a spring member secured at one end to the anvil and having its opposite extremity overlying the recess in the top face thereof, the extremity of said overlying portion of the spring member being angularly disposed to afford a stop.

3. A device of the character described including an anvil having a recess in its top face and a groove in communication with said recess, a spring member having one extremity anchored within said groove, the opposite extremity of said spring member overlying the recess, the end portion of the spring member overlying the recess being angularly disposed to afiord a stop, and a cutting member positioned within the recess.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiiX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR G. HARRINGTON.

\Vitnesses:

C AUDE THACKER, ELMER B. SMITH.

Commissioner of Patents. 

